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THE BIOSCI ELECTRONIC NEWSGROUP NETWORK INFORMATION SHEET
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This is the BIOSCI information sheet for Europe, Africa, and Central
Asia. If you are located in the Americas or the Pacific Rim
countries, please request that version of the BIOSCI information sheet
by sending e-mail to the Internet address:
biosci at net.bio.net.
New users of BIOSCI/bionet may want to read the "Frequently Asked
Questions" or "FAQ" sheet for BIOSCI. The FAQ provides details on how
to participate in these forums and is available for anonymous FTP from
net.bio.net [134.172.2.69] in pub/BIOSCI/biosci.FAQ. It may also be
requested by sending e-mail to biosci at net.bio.net (use plain English
for your request). The FAQ is also posted on the first of each month
to the newsgroup BIONEWS/bionet.announce immediately following the
posting of the BIOSCI information sheet.
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Introduction
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The BIOSCI newsgroup network was developed to allow easy worldwide
communications between biological scientists who work on a variety of
computer networks. By having distribution sites or "nodes" on each
major network, BIOSCI allows its users to contact people around the
world without having to learn a variety of computer addressing tricks.
Any user can simply post a message to his/her regional BIOSCI node and
copies of that message will be distributed automatically to all other
subscribers on all of the participating networks, including the
Internet, USENET, BITNET, EARN, NETNORTH, HEANET, and JANET.
E-mail Subscription Requests and other Information
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If you need to receive BIOSCI messages by e-mail, please send all
subscription requests, subscription cancellations, or any other
questions about using BIOSCI to the JANET address
biosci at daresbury.ac.uk
As your request will be read by a human, there is no need for special
syntax in your message. Simply select the newsgroups from the list
below to which you would like to subscribe.
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DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT POST SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS DIRECTLY TO ANY OF
THE NEWSGROUP ADDRESSES. PLEASE USE ONLY THE ADDRESS
biosci at daresbury.ac.uk
Your posting could go to several thousand people. Supposing that each
person spends a couple of seconds to figure out that you did this,
before they go on to the next message. You will have wasted the
equivalent of several hours of one person's time, not to mention
the computer time and disk storage that are wasted.
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PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO USENET NEWS YOU DO NOT NEED AN
E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTION!! Simply read and post to the newsgroups in the
"bionet" newsgroup heirarchy using your USENET news software (e.g.,
readnews, rn, vnews, ANU-NEWS, postnews).
WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ALL INTERESTED USERS TO EXPLORE GETTING USENET
NEWS SOFTWARE AT YOUR SITE. THE SOFTWARE IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, AND
YOU WILL FIND IT MUCH MORE CONVENIENT THAN SUBSCRIBING TO NEWSGROUPS
BY E-MAIL. Please consult your systems manager or contact
biosci at net.bio.net for assistance if needed.
Canceling E-mail Subscriptions
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AS WE NOTED ABOVE, PLEASE DO NOT SEND CANCELLATION NOTICES TO THE
NEWSGROUP E-MAIL POSTING ADDRESSES. PLEASE USE ONLY THE ADDRESS
biosci at daresbury.ac.uk
FOR CANCELLATION NOTICES.
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If you have subscribed to a newsgroup and are now leaving an
institution or changing your e-mail address, it is IMPERATIVE that you
send a note to biosci at daresbury.ac.uk and cancel your subscription!
Non-existent addresses or overflowing mailboxes cause computer mail
programs to send back "daemon" messages which might bother everybody
on the newsgroup. We will immediately remove any address causing such
a problem, but would prefer it if you would notify us in advance as a
courtesy to the rest of the user community.
Interruption of E-mail Service
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It is our policy to remove any address from our mailing lists which
becomes inaccessible and causes mail to bounce back to the sender.
This might happen to you if your local computer or network fails for a
significant period of time. If you notice that you are no longer
receiving BIOSCI postings, it may be because your address was removed
for the above reason. It will be necessary for you to contact
biosci at daresbury.ac.uk and resubscribe. Please see the BIOSCI FAQ,
mentioned at the beginning of this document, for more details on how
BIOSCI handles addresses which reject mail.
Retrieval of old postings from the BIOSCI archives
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Users with Internet access can use either the WAIS or gopher software
to search the BIOSCI archives as described in the BIOSCI FAQ. E-mail
users can retrieve messages from our waismail e-mail server. For
waismail instructions, send the word
help
in a message to waismail at net.bio.net. Please leave the Subject: line
of your message blank.
List of BIOSCI Newsgroups
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NEWSGROUP NAME TOPIC
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ACEDB-SOFT Discussions by users and developers of genome
databases using the ACEDB software.
AGEING Discussions about ageing research
AGROFORESTRY Discussions about agroforestry research
ARABIDOPSIS Newsgroup for the Arabidopsis Genome Project
BIOFORUM Discussions about biological topics for
which there is not yet a dedicated newsgroup
BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-
THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY Applications of information theory to biology
BIONAUTS Question/answer forum for help using
electronic networks, locating e-mail
addresses, etc.
BIONEWS ** General announcements of widespread
interest to biologists
BIO-JOURNALS ** Tables of Contents of biological journals
BIO-MATRIX Applications of computers to biological databases
BIO-SOFTWARE Information on software for the biological
sciences
CHROMOSOMES Discussions about mapping and sequencing
of eucaryote chromosomes
COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** Mathematical and computer applications in biology
DROSOPHILA Discussions about biological research on
Drosophila
EMBL-DATABANK Messages to and from the EMBL database staff
EMPLOYMENT Job opportunities in biology (see BIOSCI
FAQ *before* posting commercial job openings)
GDB Messages to and from the Genome Data Bank staff
GENBANK-BB Messages to and from the GenBank database staff
GENETIC-LINKAGE Newsgroup for genetic linkage analysis
HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Discussions about the molecular biology of HIV
HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM NIH-sponsored newsgroup on human genome issues
IMMUNOLOGY Discussions about research in immunology
INFO-GCG Discussions about the GCG sequence
analysis software
JOURNAL-NOTES